Title Aboriginal rights claims and the making and remaking of history / Arthur J. Ray

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series McGill-Queen's Native and northern series ; 87 McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 87. Contents Cover; ABORIGINAL RIGHTS CLAIMS AND THE MAKING AND REMAKING OF HISTORY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Figures and Text Boxes ; Acknowledgments ; Preface ; 1 Taking Indigenous Peoples' Lands ; 2 The United States Indian Claims Commission ; 3 Litigating and Negotiating Native Title and Treaty Rights in Canada 4 Anthropologists, Historians, and the Title Claims of Aborigines in Australia 5 The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History ; 6 Redressing Race-Based Dispossessions in South Africa ; 7 The Métis in Court: Problems of Discrimination, Identity, and Community 8 Courts, Commissions, and Tribunals as Forums for Interpreting and Making History Notes ; Bibliography ; Index Summary "The forums that were established during the second half of the twentieth century to address Aboriginal land claims have led to a particular way of engaging with and presenting Aboriginal, colonial, and national histories. The history that comes out of these land claim forums is often attacked for being "presentist": interpreting historical actions and actors through the lens of present day values, practices, and concerns. In Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History, a comparative study encompassing five former British colonies (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States), Arthur Ray examines how claims-oriented research is framed by existing Indigenous rights law and claims legislation and how, in turn, it has influenced the development of laws and legislation. Ray also explores the ways in which the procedures and settings for claims adjudication--the courtroom, claims commissions, and the Waitangi Tribunal--have influenced the use of historical evidence, stimulated scholarly debates about the cultural/historical experiences of Indigenous people at the time of European contact and afterward, and have provoked reactions from politicians and scholars. While giving serious consideration to the arguments of presentism and the problems that overly presentist histories can create, Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History provides Aboriginal, academic, and legal communities with an essential perspective on how history is used in the Aboriginal claims process."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index SUBJECT Kaṇada. gnd Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd Subject Indigenous peoples -- Claims -- History -- 20th century Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century Indigenous peoples -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century Indigenous peoples -- Colonization -- History -- 20th century Indigenous peoples -- History -- 20th century Indigenous peoples -- Government relations -- History -- 20th century 86.77 agrarian law. LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. Indigenous peoples -- Government relations British colonies Indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples -- Claims Indigenous peoples -- Government policy Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. Aborigines Anspruch Bürgerrecht Geschichtsschreibung Indigenes Volk Kolonialismus Kolonisation Recht Indigenous peoples -- Claims -- History -- 20th century. Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century. Indigenous peoples -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century. Indigenous peoples -- Colonization -- History -- 20th century. Indigenous peoples -- History -- 20th century. Indians of North America -- Canada -- History -- 20th century. Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- History -- 20th century. Métis -- History -- 20th century. Maori (New Zealand people) -- History -- 20th century. Indigenous peoples -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century. Indians of North America -- History -- 20th century. Indigenous peoples. Indigenous land rights. Colonialism. History. Kōrero nehe. Whakamāori. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century Subject Australien Großbritannien Neuseeland Südafrika Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773599109 077359910X 9780773599116 0773599118

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